initiate active to criminalize people for assisting others with absentee ballots. if somebody pace their family member to take it to deliver their ballot that american would be -- that assistance would be criminally charged. i'm not sure if that was the intent but several of my constituents called me in fear of voting absentee because alternative afraid of it being rejected for simple reasons like not being able to provide the ballot themselves but having a family member deliver it. can you give assurances we in alabama can actually make it easier for voters to access the ballot box? we are one of three states that don't have early voting so in is important to get it right. >> yes, ma'am. the right to vote is sacred and that bill protected absentee voting. paid political activists

shouldn't be involved in manipulating the absentee process. >> i hear what you are saying but these are family members trying to help elderly parents vote and they shouldn't be in fear of turning in a ballot if they have to borrow money from their mother to get to the post office or -- >> we will leave the hearing and try to return and continue watching on the mobile c-span now to go live to the white house where president trump is signing an executive order on energy and revitalizing u.s. coal production.

[applause] pres. trump: strong, they are strong and great. they are great people. thank you very much. this is a very important day to me because we are bringing back an industry that was abandoned

despite the fact that it was just about the best and certainly the best in terpblgs of power, real power -- in terms of power, real power. i'm honored to be doing this. the country went it beautiful clean coal and stayed it many years like china. china is opening two plants every week. skwraerpblt green, very green, so green they almost went out of business. germany was finished. they went to wind. the wind wouldn't blowing too much. they went to other things, the green new scam hit germany and they are back to coal. they are on the ground coal plants all over germany. we are the ones that are not doing it. i call it beautiful christine coal. i said never use the word coal unless you put beautiful clean before it so we call it beautiful clean coal.

[applause] thank you. today we are taking historic action to help american workers, miners, families, and consumers. we are ending joe biden's war on beautiful, clean coal. we are doing the exact opposite. all those plants that have been closed are going to be open. if they are not modern enough, they will be ripped out and rebuilt. i have said it loud and clear, it's time to do it. now we needed. i have these people behind me. i don't want to have any arm wrestling contest with any of them. but they are great people, and i know them indirectly and directly for a long time.

they are great people with great families. i want to thank secretary doug burgum for doing such an incredible job. from the day i met him, i knew i wanted to have him in my cabinet. he was -- he took a shot at running and he was so good and so solid that he made no news. but i saw him i saw his beautiful wife, and i said that they are going to be a team. they are a great team. they are going to be working for this country someday. he was one of the first people i called. thank you so much. along with the energy secretary. i was going to make doug the energy secretary, and he said, you have one person that's better than me at this. chris wright.

i said, who is chris wright? i learned he is the most respected person in the energy business so far. you guys are fantastic. all three of you, please, stand up. [applause] that's a great team. it's no better team than that and would have to produce energy the likes of which nobody has seen before. we need to do the ai all of this new technology that's coming on line, we need more than double the energy, the electricity we currently have. you take all the electricity in the country right now for houses, buildings, everything, we need to more than double it to be number one. we are now way ahead of

everybody at ai. china is going to producing -- going to be producing a lot of electricity and energy for this and so are we. the man that is almost comparable to you in terms of this, maybe even more comfortable, i hate to tell you, a guy named lee zell would -- zelman, a friend of mine for a long time. lee was a great lawyer and ran for office and won immediately. i gave a very important endorsement. he won for congress in an area that was unwinnable. they told him he was wasting his time. i like lee avenue lee and he ended up winning a seat in a

massive upset. nobody knew what happened, actually, and then he was there for a long time. how many years were you there? eight. eight years. it very popular. he almost won the governorship of new york, lost by a few points, which was an amazing run. he is head of the environmental agency, epa, and doing a great job. i said if we have a nuclear power plant, can you get it to move in less than a month, he said, i will do it faster. he's is doing also a great job, it's also an important job. i have been involved in the approval process for a long time. i have been in real estate and you go years and years with absolutely nothing.

even in those years, i used to say this whole thing could have been approved in a week or two weeks or three weeks and it would have been just as good. you spend years waiting and sometimes get rejected. i was not rejected too much. i was the king of zoning. i did well, but it was such nonsense. the process was so terrible, but this is the big leagues now. he is the head person in the whole country, and i appreciate it. i appreciate you doing it and already they are respecting you very greatly. thank you for doing a great job. [applause] we have a lot of senators in congress, men and women, and i'm going to just introduce the one that -- the ones i see here. it's always a problem because i leave one or two out and i never get their vote again. it takes years to recover. but we will give it a shot.

senator john barrasso, my friend and a great gentlemen. thank you so much. [applause] cynthia lummis, fantastic woman who believes like i do in these people. she believes in them maybe even more than i do. thank you, cynthia. you are doing a fantastic job. kevin cramer, my friend, where is kevin? he had a problem, and i wanted to pay my respects. we all love kevin. thank you very much. steve daines. thank you, steve. steve is a picker of great candidates. he picked a guy named tim sheehy

, who is here. he has turned out to be a wonderful senator. that was your pic and we went with it and you were right, and we have a great one in him, so thank you, tim, and thank you, steve. shelley, thank you very much. from west virginia. even if you didn't like it, you have to like all that, but they were doing a number on you with the coal stuff. you have not only cold but you have among them a -- among the best anywhere in the world. a friend of mine for a long time. i'm the one that got him to change his religion in a sense. he changed already. he went from a democrat -- i said you're not a democrat -- but he changed to a republican and is one of the most popular republicans, one of the most popular leaders in the country,

jim justice. i call him big jim justice. he was in the business. am i doing the right thing? if you would know better than anybody in this room. am i doing the right thing, jim? thank you very much. cindy, thank you, hon. very good job. people are going to be happy. all friends of mine. mike lee. mike, thank you very much. we have a lot people from congress, men and women, representatives. morgan griffith, thank you. thank you very much. bruce westerman. thank you, bruce. bob latta. thank you, bob. good job. troy balderston, troy, have not seen you in a long time since

that early race. i endorsed him before anyone knew who he was. that was another surprise, right? that was a long time ago. you did a great job. thank you very much. carol miller, thank you. riley more. hi, riley. thanks. mike, thank you very much. troy downing. troy, thank you. he says something. what is it, is there coal in that vet? >> [indiscernible] >> i'll take it. thank you very much. andy barr, thank you. good luck with everything. troy downing. thank you, thank you. thank you hal rogers.

harriet hagerman. how are you, harriet? one of the finest attorneys you will ever see. i have seen her in action and she is brutal. i never want her against me, that i can tell you. thanks, dan. good job you are doing. wesley hutton, good job you are doing, too. i love your commercial. pete stauber and. thank you, pete. great hockey player, he was, right? great hockey player. a great gentlemen just broke the record of wayne gretzky, the great one is wayne gretzky, but we have another great 1, 2, huh -- we have another great one, too, huh? just broke the record.

bill lee, bill, thank you very much. patrick morrissey, west virginia, just got elected. mark gordon. mark, thank you. thank you very much. and we have a lot of others and i'm in trouble because i don't know. i have five or six others, but i'm just not going to do it. don't hold it against me because we have to get back to the most important people in the room, these people. you know that, right? [applause] so the energy workers and the coal miners in the area that i'm standing on, there is a lot of weight on this platform, so i don't know what's going happen. i hope it is structurally designed for you guys. i don't know. we have really well deserving, great patriots, and it is such an honor to be here and making

such a big move, such a bold move in energy because, you know, for years, people would just bemoan this industry and decimate the industry for absolutely no reason because of modern technology and all the other things we do, it is one of the great forms of energy. that's why other countries, leading countries, are using it. some exclusively. for four years, joe biden and congressional democrats tried to abolish the coal industry. they did everything in their power while he was awake, which wasn't much, shutting down dozens of coal plants, banning coal leases on federal land and putting thousands and thousands of coal miners out of work. destroying their lives, actually. i will never forget when i went to west virginia, which i won by 48 point, i think, right?

big jim, i won by 48 points? in the first campaign where hillary clinton was about four states too early in talking about how bad coal was and how they would teach coal miners how to make widgets and gadgets and technology, which they don't want to do. they want to mine. one thing i learned about coal miners, you can give them a penthouse on fifth avenue and a different kind of a job, but they would be unhappy. they want to mine coal. she wanted to put them in the high-tech industry where you make cell phones. i don't know. you think you would be good at that? you don't want to be. she was brutal. about three weeks before, but then she had a problem. she went to west virginia looking for votes, and that was a bad situation. there was a coal miner around the table with his family, and

he was in tears because of what they had done to him and his family, and i hope he is still around, but that man made quite an impression on the world, the public, and we ended up waiting in a great election, but we ended up winning by a lot -- we ended up winning in a great election. china is opening two coal plants every single week. other countries likewise went very strongly back into coal. some of them never got off. those are the ones that did not have the problems. the biden energy policy was to put america last. we want to be last. we better be last. not a good policy. under by administration, we are putting america first. it's very simple. my first day in office, i terminated the green new scam. i declared a national energy an emergency. it went from one-sided and extremely costly from the paris

climate accord. [applause] under the paris climate accord, we had a terrible situation. we would have paid over $1 trillion. russia was paying almost nothing. russia had a 1992 standard. china was paying nothing. china did not kick in until 2035. this was five years ago. india had no standard whatsoever , but we had the highest standard you can imagine and we had to start paying from day one and we had to pay lots of money. we paid for everything. so i was not a big fan of the paris accord. had to let it be known, and i got out of it early, then they went back into it and now we get back out and hopefully we will be for a long time because it

was a scam to take money away from the united states and actually hurt us very badly with coal and with other things. under the executive order that i will sign in a a few moments, we are slashing unnecessary regulations that target the beautiful, clean coal. these two gentlemen are going to do it real job, you have already started. we will streamline permitting, end of the government bias against coal and unlock the sweeping authorities of defense production act, the defense production act. they made it impossible -- impossible. a friend of mine has a plan. he said, you know, it's a shame. i'm ripping it down and replacing it with another form of energy that's also very good but not as powerful as this. he said the new plant and building is literally half as

good. it's not properly even as good environmentally but he said to produce half the power for more money, much more money and will never compete with that beautiful plant i have down the road, which is really a modernized coal plant. he was complaining. he said this was so much better. he was not doing that politicking me. he was doing that because that was what he felt. but our government is going to do something that is very different, and i don't think even you two know about this. this was my idea from about 15 minutes before i got up here. [laughter] with a guarantee that we will have a strong business for many years to come that your coal companies and your miners do not

get all excited about their jobs and then, should a radical left liberal become president, they the end of the business right away and somebody has built a plant that has spent hundreds of millions of dollars. republicans are very much for it. clean coal. we are going to give a guarantee that the business will not be terminated by the ups and downs of the world of politics, so should somebody come in to this very important office and say, oh, well, we spent hundreds of millions of dollars and you guys have given up your life because you want to be in coal and all of a setting have a life anymore because it's what you know best, it's not going to happen. if somebody comes in, they cannot change it at a whim. they will have to go through

hell to close you up. we are giving a guarantee, writing it up structurally. your investments will also be protected. [applause] and you are going to have no reason to be concerned about your future, your life, or your investment. if you are a miner as this late governor was a miner, but he was a great success, but they were very tough on him, and he did a beautiful job with a beautiful product. already under our leadership, the department of the interior has improved the -- approved the expansion of the green creek mine in china unlocking over 40,000,000 tons of coal, and there's more to come.

[applause] and there's more to come in the states of wyoming, alabama, utah, north dakota, and many others. west virginia. i cannot believe they did not put west virginia down. can you imagine if i did not mention west virginia? i would have been in big trouble. they did not mark it down here. great to have a president like that that can pick that up, right? you think joe biden would have picked that up? i don't think so. i don't think he would be standing up here, either. the value of untapped coal in our country is 100 times greater than the value of all the gold in fort knox, and we are going to unleash it and make america rich and powerful again. under this order, i am also directing secretary wright to invest millions of dollars in the next generation of coal technology in terms of getting the full potential of coal and getting it in a very clean,

environmental way. pound for pound, coal is the single most reliable, durable, secure, and powerful form of energy there is on earth today. you never hear those statements. you never heard that before from a politician -- well, maybe from that politician, but from not too many come but that's the way it is. i say it again, pound for pound, coal is the single most reliable, durable, secure, and powerful form of energy. it is cheap, incredibly efficient, high density, and almost indestructible. you can drop a bomb on it, and it's going to be there for you to use the next day, which you cannot say with any other form of energy. virtually indestructible. most importantly, we have more of it here in america than anywhere else. we have more coal than any other country. you go to australia, fantastic amounts of coal. you know who they sell it to? china.

but we have more than anywhere else on earth. we also have more liquid coal than anywhere on earth, so we are really an energy behemoth, but we are unleashing that also. i didn't want to mention it because today is about clean, beautiful coal. [indiscernible] >> thank you, mr. president. [applause] >> for example, we believe it is possible to extract enormous amounts of critical minerals on rare earths, which you know we need for technology and high technology, and the process of coal mining, making it in america, the mineral super power the world, actually. in addition, i am instructing the department of justice to identify and fight every single unconstitutional state or local

regulation that is putting our coal miners out of business, and we are withdrawing all of those objections from our government today. it is all being withdrawn, so all you people that have been fighting for your lives, we are withdrawing all of that. we have excellent lawyers. have you noticed lots of law firms have been signing up with trump? $100 million. another $100 million for damages that they have done. but they give you $100 million and they announce that, but we have done nothing wrong, and i agree they have done nothing wrong, but what the hell? they give me a lot of money to say they have done nothing wrong. they are great firms, they just did something wrong, but i think they are going to do a fantastic

job. for those of you that want to know the tariffs you have been hearing about -- you have been hearing about tariffs -- we are taking almost $2 billion a day in tariffs, and we are doing very well. we are doing well and making -- i call them taylor deals, not off the rack. right now japan is flying here to make a deal. south korea is flying here to make a deal and others are flying here. we are going to have to use those great law firms i think to help us with that, but we are going to probably do that, actually. we are getting them for the right price because we need a lot of talent. we have a lot of countries coming in that want to make deals. if i told them about making those deals two years ago over three years ago or five years

ago, they would be laughing at us. now they are all signing up. so it's going to be a great thing. think of that, $2 billion a day. that's a lot of money. even in the coal business, that's a lot of money, and america is going to be very rich again very soon. you see that happening. that whole situation, it was somewhat explosive, but if we did not do that, we would not be talking the way we are talking right now. it has been amazing what has happened. sometimes you have to mix it up a little bit, but we have had great consideration. we have had talks with many countries, over 70. they all want to come in. our problem is we cannot see that many that fast. but we don't have to because the tariffs are on and the money is pouring in at a level we have never seen before, and it's going to be great for us.

it's going to be great for other countries who have been ripped off and abused by other countries for many years with the tariffs situation. they used tariffs against us. we did not use tariffs against them in any way. we just did not use them in any monument of proportion, so we are doing it now. we have tariffs on cars. we have tariffs on lumber. tariffs on steel and aluminum. steel plants are going up all over the country. 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum. i think the steelworkers like me even more than the coal miners like me. i'm pretty sure that that's true. instead of having no steel business, i put them on originally in my first term -- we would not have had one steel mill in the united states if i did not do that. we are taking in a lot of money but protecting our steelworkers,

protecting our steel industry. one thing you know, steel and things like steel you need because you needed from a defense standpoint. eating steel from your tanks and things. in certain industries you can get away with not having, but others you need and steel is one you need. literally as we speak -- i spoke to executives in the steel industry over the last few days and they are all coming in to build plants in the united states of america because if you build them in the united states, you have no tariffs to pay, zero. if you build them outside using outside labor and hurting our businesses, you have to pay a price for that, and they will be having tariffs, as you know. it is an amazing thing. this has been something used against us for many years by

other countries, china's -- china in particular, but not just china but others. they have taken advantage of us, ripped us off, left us for dead, frankly, and i believe if i did not become the president, i believe this country would have had problems like that had before because it was serious damage in so many ways, not only the border where people came rushing into our country from prisons and jails and mental institutions -- murderers, drug dealers, and some vicious, vicious criminals -- 11,088 murderers came into our country. we are getting them out. of that number, half committed murder on more than two people. this is what they allowed into our country with an open border policy. we are taking care of that just like we are taking care of you today. i want to thank kristi noem and

tom homan for doing an unbelievable job. it is really an unforced error. should have never happened. we spent so much time and resources on getting people out of our country literally from mental institutions. insane asylums were opened up and emptied into our country. prisons from all over the world, not just south america. prisons from africa, the congo -- a lot of people from the congo. prisons in the congo. prisons from asia from all over the world opened up. and i knew when there was an open border policy that every country is going to be dumping everyone they don't want into our country, and that is what is happening, but we cannot get out. we had a good decision, as you know, from the supreme court.

we have judges that wanted the very people -- very evil gang members, they did not want to take them out of the country and go to very powerful prisons. you have all seen those clips, but i want to thank el salvador. they have done an incredible job . we have been fortunately winning those cases, but we have judges that are out of control. they are saying, bring them back, bring them back. we don't want them back. can you imagine? spent all that money and time getting them out, and you have federal judges saying no, no, bring them back. one, they want to bring them back because they misidentified him, but it sounds to me like he

was a member of ms 13, so they want him brought back because he was not treated properly. you got to be smart. our country has to be a lot smarter than it is, but would have to give the people the power to give them this kind of work, and it is not pleasant work. we have to give them the option of making our country great again, and that is what they are doing, and i have great respect for those people. and they are doing it out of love. they could get a much easier job. they are doing it out of love for our country. it is so important. just like i'm doing this with cole today for love of our country. i signed another executive order to strengthen our electric grid by ensuring that coal-fired power plants are always available to meet surging demand for electricity, unlike wind and solar, coal plants can run 24 hours a day in rain, sleet, and snow, and you will not be subject to the incredible blackout situation that was

taking place in california where they have blackouts all the time. it is an amazing thing with california. they have blackouts and brownouts at levels nobody has ever seen before. all they want to do is keep going the way they are going, and they are doing a very poor job. as you probably heard, i released millions of gallons of water from california from the most northern parts of california probably. comes in from canada. thank you very much. we appreciate it. it was being sent out to the pacific ocean. i've been working on gavin and some of the politicians for years. they don't want to do that because they were protecting a fish that was perhaps in trouble, but it is not unique to that area. because of that, you had numbers

of fires -- nobody has ever seen anything like what happened. think about what would have happened if they had fire hydrants that had water in them. you had sprinkler systems in houses, a lot of these luxury houses that had sprinkler systems that had no water to put out the fires. we now have millions of gallons -- billions, actually, of water pouring into california from the pacific northwest -- i guess they would say mostly the pacific northwest, but other parts of the northern sections of california and beyond, and it is a beautiful thing to see. i saw a picture of it this morning. i said why didn't they do this? i told them to do it my first term. i said, do it. i think the second term is just more powerful. when i say do it, they do it, right?

we actually have to do some pretty strong things to get them to open it up. they had all that water pouring out right into the pacific. they had a giant valve as big as this room. they turn the valve. it takes one day to turn it, and they face it toward the pacific ocean. the water was coming down, all millions and millions of gallons coming down, they put it into the pacific ocean, which to the pacific ocean, it is like a drop of water, but to california, it would have been unbelievable. we did a great battle against a lot of heat and a lot of environmental nonsense. for now -- from now on, we will make sure that our nation's coal plants, for example, remain online and fully operational, and again, we will have guarantees the government cannot close them down, close you down and destroy your lives. to that end, i'm also

instructing secretary wright to save the coal plant in arizona, a big plant that has been slaving for years. we are going to keep those coal miners on the job and tell them to just remain calm because we are going to have that plant opening and burning clean coal, beautiful, clean coal in a short period of time. you will know about that. [applause] that's a big one. it is part of our historic deregulatory efforts. i'm also granting immediate relief to 47 companies operating 66 coal plants -- very big ones -- all over the country. recusing and making them available for coal production almost in the immediate future, but we are going to be crushing biden-era environmental restrictions. these are restrictions that made

it impossible -- and possible -- to do anything -- that made it impossible to do anything with clean energy. we have clean air, clean water, no we have clean coal. at the same time, we are going to do other things, other forms of technology like our country has never really seen before and never been known to do before because of all sorts of restrictions having to do with the green new scam, which, by the way, was devised by somebody who never even studied -- you know that? they never even studied anything to do with the environment. a young congresswoman, she came up with the idea. i guess we should have open gone because many of us have only a few years left on earth, right? we were all going to be gone. now what we have to worry about

is the nuclear heat. don't have to worry about environmental heat. have to worry about nuclear heat. that is the heat given you have to worry about. the air is getting warmer, the ocean will rise one quarter of an inch within the next 500 to 600 years, giving you a little more waterfront property. these guys can handle that. the nuclear we have a problem with. with us today are some of the amazing workers who will benefit from these policies, the policies we are doing and so proud of doing, including jeff, a miner from west virginia. will you come up and say a few words? [applause]

>> good afternoon. mr. president, i want to first thank you for having me and my fellow miners here. it is an honor and privilege to be a part of today's events. i believe this past november that america clearly stood by what we wanted for our country. it is reassuring for americans to have a president in office who will clearly put the united states of america above all else. [applause] with putting america first, he has spoken numerous times about energy independence. i believe most don't understand the importance of that. coal is one of the major factors in energy independence, and it accounts for a large portion of america's energy. coal is one of the most reliable and cheapest forms of electricity. for too long, coal has been a

dirty word that most are afraid to speak about. most of those that speak negatively about coal do so from an uneducated standpoint. many are unaware of the engineering technologies used in today's mining to create a clean, energy-efficient product. all this is done while using the safest practices in the industry. speaking for west virginia, coal provides approximately 50,000 jobs for those that work in the minds and the businesses that support them. it also accounts for 50% of west virginia's export product. we employ engineers, teachers, physical therapists, accountants, truck drivers, high school, and college graduates. all of these occupations and graduates have turned the coal industry and provided a better way of life for their families. everyone in our industry works long hours and days to provide a reliable energy product, and too many times, it goes unnoticed. i have personally worked in the

industry for 23 years. i choose to do this daily to provide my wife and children with life that they deserve. prior administrations have done all they could to eliminate the coal industry. i'm sorry, one second, i'm getting there. in my opinion, they have done so with an unethical and uneducated approach, but we are still strong. we are still here, and we are still needed in order to make america great again. [applause] having a president and an administration that understands the importance of coal is more than appreciated. it gives the industry a form of reassurance to know we have a president in place that supports us. from my family to the over 3000 families and the other coal companies, minors, and businesses that rely on the coal

industry, we say thank you for your continued support. i personally thank you for what you do for our country and for our industry. it has been my pleasure to be here today to help usher in the golden age of america. thank you. thank you. [applause] >> you did a good job. let me have that speech. i want to have that. it had a couple good lines. actually, i'm going to sign it for you. you work hard. look how good his eyes must be

to read that. [laughter] hopefully you can sell it tonight for a lot of money. [laughter] that's great. thank you very much. [applause] thank you very much, jeff. also with us is tony campbell of the east kentucky power coal cooperative. tony is quite a gentleman and very respected in the industry. come on up, tony. thank you. [applause] >> mr. president, on behalf of

east kentucky power cooperative and the national rule cooperative electric association and electric cooperatives across america, thank you for your leadership to restore american energy dominance. electric co-ops keep the lights on for 42 million americans across 56% of an landmass. we are owned by the communities and businesses we serve and provide electricity to growing communities, new data centers, and manufacturing plants. mr. president, electric co-ops are powering america and we are proud to partner with you and your administration to power america into the future. [applause]our electric cooperatn kentucky understand the importance of reliable, affordable, and american-made energy, especially coal and

natural gas. coal fools most of the electricity generated by our cooperative. america must keep coal plants open and running to ensure reliable electricity when we need it most, to meet growing demand over the next decade and ensure fuel security. america will need more always available electric generation power such as coal, and we want to recognize the hard working american men, women that support our mission. to all america's mine workers, our coal miners, thank you for your dedicated service to our country. [applause] affordable and reliable electricity is the cornerstone of our economy, especially american manufacturing. however, too many government leaders have pushed policies that have made our electric grid

significantly less reliable and our energy too expensive. that begins to change now. [applause] your actions today will prevent the premature closing of essential power plants and help us meet tomorrow's energy needs and they will help us continue to deliver reliable, safe, and affordable electricity. mr. president, thank in particular for providing immediate, much-needed relief from the biden epa regulations that forced the shutdown of critical coal units. [applause] finally, i want to say congratulation on the all-star energy team you have assembled. electric co-ops have already been working with secretaries program -- burgum, wright, and

collins. thank you again for your actions today and for your support for the electric cooperatives as we work to keep the lights on in america. thank you, mr. president. [applause] >> thank you, tony. thank you very much. appreciate it. every day under the trump administration, we will continue to lower costs for american families, create jobs for american workers, and, very importantly, unlock grounds for affordable american energy, as i have said and i was high for the last time, beautiful, clean coal. [applause]

our country is blessed with the most abundant natural resources on earth. because nobody has what we have, and we are going to use it in a very responsible way. together, we are going to tap that magnificent potential to give our people the glorious future they deserve, better than they have ever had in the past. 20 years ago, they thought they had a good future, and it was ripped away from them, torn away from them with nonsense and we are not going to let that happen. this is going to be a glorious future for them. i want to thank everybody for being here. i want to thank you and you and you and that whole group and our senators and our great congressmen and women who have to be here in such a large number because you are helping us make these decisions. this is a really big decision.

i think we are going to look back at great pride -- look back with great pride at what we have done today reawakening our great country. thank you very much and thank you all for being here. [applause] come on up. >> mr. president? we have no more for items prepared for your signature this afternoon. the first of this executive orders may be one of the most significant executive orders of your administration thus far. this directs all departments and agencies of the federal government to end all discriminatory policies against the coal industry. this ends the leasing moratorium that prevents new coal projects on federal land, and it will accelerate all permitting and funding for new coal projects to

allow the coal industry to flourish under your leadership, sir. >> thank you. [applause] >> ok. [applause] >> sir, there are currently dozens of coal plants in america that are in imminent danger of being forced to close based on unscientific and unrealistic policies enacted by the biden administration. what we are going to do is essentially impose a moratorium on those policies taking effect to protect coal plants that are currently operating to ensure they are able to continue producing power and continue providing jobs to americans in the coal industry. >> thank you. [applause]

ok. [applause] >> sir, you have made grid reliability and security a key focus of this administration. this executive order is going to promote this security and reliability by entering in part that our grid policies are focused on secure and effective energy production and energy transmission as opposed to policies that discriminate against secure sources of power like coal and other fossil fuels. [applause]

>> ok. [applause] >> lastly, sir, one of the biggest problems we have in this space is democrat states, radical leftist states enacting policies and enacting an agenda that discriminates against coal, against secure sources of energy. many of these policies are unconstitutional and illegal, and with this executive order, you will be instructing your department of justice to vigorously pursue and investigate these state policies that we believe are illegal or unconstitutional. [applause]

>> thank you very much. great job. he went to harvard when harvard was good. [applause] >> what would you tell republicans who are worried about tariffs, sir? ♪

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international development and its role in achieving goals of reducing hiv transmission and preventing the deaths of those already infected. this is an hour and 40 minutes. program. you are watching live coverage on c-span2. >> i want him thank the ranking member, i know she got her despite some difficulties in transportation. let me start by welcome, welcoming all of you to a hearing today to assess the president's emergency plan for aids relief come something we all, referred to as pepfar. so let me first introduced our distinguished witnesses. ambassador mark dybul is a professor and department of medicine at georgetown university medical center where he serves as chief strategy officer of the center for global health practice and impact. he's also chair of